Today I have one of those miscellaneous posts that I like to write every now and then.In this case, I want to share our experience with photobooks, our preferred way to keep the photos from our summer holidays.In the first place, I'd like to tell you about *Fotoprix* and their photobooks. If you're lucky enough, you may have a brick and mortar Fotoprix store near you, but anyway, it is much more convenient if you download the required software onto your computer and make the book yourself in the comfort of your home.You can also create the album online, without downloading the software, but I think the other option is better.

As for the software Fotoprix uses to create the albums, there are two ways to do so: a manual and automatic mode.The automatic mode is needless to say faster, but on the other hand photos are placed at random in the album, so you then have to move them by cutting and pasting them onto a different spot, and that's a slow and tedious task.As far as price goes, they can come out expensive, but printing out 200 photos and sorting them into an album is no easy feat either....That's what we used to do back then and it was boring, let me tell you.

As for shipping, it usually takes about 5 days. You can choose to have the photobook sent to your nearest Fotoprix store at no extra cost. Although if you don't have a store near you, you'll have to pay a surplus.As of today, we have made a total of 10 Fotoprix books (5 per each one of us). I'm including a few pictures so you can have a better idea of the quality they offer.Finally, I want to tell you about my latest experience with these albums, this time using a website called Albelli. It is pictured together with our biggest Fotoprix book so you can see the Albelli one -pictured right- is considerably less thick. I'll share my impressions about the latter now.

I discovered Albelli through Groupalia, an online group buying company.When you buy an Albelli photobook through Groupalia, you can save loads of money.

In my case, I paid €19.99 per 60-page book. In addition, you can get another deal if you access their website through *Beruby*, the leading cashback site in Spain. Savings never hurt anyone. The only thing I had to pay for was shipping, 5.95 EUR per book if I remember correctly.Albelli offers combined shipping for additional orders to reduce costs, but considering I purchased the albums through Groupalia, I did the math and placing two separate but identical orders was cheaper.

As for quality, the pages are thinner than those from Fotoprix. I think you can tell the difference in thickness from the side-by-side comparison pictures. I went for the matte finish, as the glossy one involved paying an charge of 0.20 EUR per page, if I remember correctly. Both photobooks come with a hard cover, although the Fotoprix one is somewhat padded.

All in all, I think the quality of the Albelli product is more than acceptable for what we use it for, which is keeping our holiday snaps. Tell us, how do you store your photos? Have you tried any Photobook options out there?Do tell us about the ones you've used in the comments section below.